"Beilein’s $3.8 million salary is composed of three parts: his base salary of $400,000; $1.5 million from Michigan’s Supplemental Defined Contribution Retirement Plan; and $1.9 million, paid in equal monthly installments, for Beilein’s “University-related promotional activities, sponsorships, television, radio, internet, shoe and/or apparel sponsorships, consulting, and other services at the request of the University as part of (Beilein’s) duties and responsibilities as the Head Men’s Basketball coach.”

Not saying Juwan Howard is making 3.8m right away, but the $400K base thing is essentially meaningless.

LJ has still not commented. He’s posted Christian quotes on Twitter but nothing in regards to the Michigan job but nothing like he’s excited and grateful to be at Butler. Ed Cooley did it. LJ has not. Wonder why?

LJ has still not commented. He’s posted Christian quotes on Twitter but nothing in regards to the Michigan job but nothing like he’s excited and grateful to be at Butler. Ed Cooley did it. LJ has not. Wonder why?

Because Cooley used the rumormongering to get an extension and to crow about being committed? And PC gets to make it seem like their coach was desirable and they were able to keep him at home? Latest freep article says Cooley was never even offered. Pretty slick. If you haven’t noticed before, it isn’t in the program’s nature to hype up something that never happened.

LJ has still not commented. He’s posted Christian quotes on Twitter but nothing in regards to the Michigan job but nothing like he’s excited and grateful to be at Butler. Ed Cooley did it. LJ has not. Wonder why?

Because Lavall didn’t get an interview he was always viewed as a possible candidate but never a serious one. I think by him not saying anything just shows he wasn’t considered past a phone call or wasn’t interested as much as people thought

Come on, who doesn't want this thread to at least get to 69 pages? It would be my crowning moment.

Do you guys think that LJ has a higher buyout for UM, than other schools/jobs? For instance, if that $5M number is correct, it seems quite high and there's no way the Cavs would pay that, so we're good to go. However, if he has some sort of lesser buyout for the NBA, perhaps that's still in play and could explain why he hasn't tweeted the all-clear equivalent.

Come on, who doesn't want this thread to at least get to 69 pages? It would be my crowning moment.

Do you guys think that LJ has a higher buyout for UM, than other schools/jobs? For instance, if that $5M number is correct, it seems quite high and there's no way the Cavs would pay that, so we're good to go. However, if he has some sort of lesser buyout for the NBA, perhaps that's still in play and could explain why he hasn't tweeted the all-clear equivalent.

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I really doubt there's a higher buyout for any particular job vs. all other jobs for LJ. As discussed before, when they hired him, Butler was extremely well positioned to negotiate a sky-high buyout for any job that may tempt LaVall; there was likely no need for a Michigan multiplier.

Second, I think you'd have to be insane to leave a high major head coaching job for an NBA assistant job, so I wouldn't worry about that. I'm not sure that's happened in the history of ever. You see NBA assistants and college assistants swapping places sometimes (e.g., Shrews from Boston to Purdue), which sort of tells you those jobs are mostly equivalent.

Come on, who doesn't want this thread to at least get to 69 pages? It would be my crowning moment.

Do you guys think that LJ has a higher buyout for UM, than other schools/jobs? For instance, if that $5M number is correct, it seems quite high and there's no way the Cavs would pay that, so we're good to go. However, if he has some sort of lesser buyout for the NBA, perhaps that's still in play and could explain why he hasn't tweeted the all-clear equivalent.